NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1757MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +37%

5.398 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +56%

478

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1187 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

1664

Shading Units

1536

104

TMUs

96

56

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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